PILGRIM 
TERCENTENARY 



Observances at Plymouth 

December 21, 1920 
and the Summer of 1921 




Issued by 

THE PLYMOUTH CORDAGE CO. 

by authority of the 

Tercejstenary Town Committee 

Wm. S. Kyle, Chairman 



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biieiior of Pilgrim Hall 

Events 

August, ig2o — Celebrations in Holland. 

September, ig20 — Celebrations in England. 

December 21, ig20 — Anniversary Exercises in 
Plymouth. 

June, July, August, September, ig2i. 
Principal commemoration at Plymouth. 
Elaborate pageantry and program to be 
announced. 

Prior to the celebration in 192 1 the historic spots in 
Plymouth are to be restored and the surround- 
ings beautified in such a manner as to form a 
suitable permanent memorial to the Pilgrims. 

Note — It should be remembered that while the three- 
hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims is in 
1920, it falls in the winter — December 21 — and the general 
observances at Plymouth will take place the following 
summer, June-September, 1921. 

See page 12 for bibliography of Pilgrim literature. 
Everyone should read this year Pilgrim legends and stories 
as well as history. Apply to your Public Library for any 
of the books mentioned. 

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DECEMBER 21, 1920, will mark the three- 
hundredth anniversary of the landing at 
Plymouth of a brave. God-fearing- com- 
pany, passengers on a little ship — so small indeed 
that we wonder at her bringing the company in 
safety across the storm-swept Atlantic. Her name 
was not even mentioned in early accounts of the 
venture, but every boy and girl now knows of 
the Mayflower and of her troubled voyage. 

That voyage and that landing seem most com- 
monplace in themselves, but had that little com- 
- pany been other than it was, in- 

and the 



spired by other ideals, sustained 
^ J. by a lesser faith, who can say 

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under which we of America would be living three 
hundred years after the event ? 

Grown a million-fold in population, with in- 
crease of wealth and opportunity in like measure, 
our country today reflects on every hand the 
spirit of freedom, of religious and civil liberty, 
of unswerving justice, which was implanted at 
Plymouth three memorable centuries ago. 

Humbly walked the little band of first settlers, 
only faintly aware of their great, God -given 
rp, ^ . . mission. But from that well- 

the i ilgrims ^^ters " of courage, of patience, 
of industry, of progress, of faith and zeal which 

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Pilgrim Monument 



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inspired all later comers to go forth and conquer 
the wilderness, to cultivate the fertile prairies, to 
develop untold natural resources, to found great in- 
stitutions of education and philanthropy — above 
all, to build up a national character which could 
pass through fiery trial to emerge the stronger, 
and at last to stand forth as the one firm, un- 
shaken bulwark of human liberties throughout 
the world. 

And, like as one who has gone out into the 
world and been absorbed in its struggle returns 
at some anniversary season to the ancestral home 
and finds in so doing one of life's greatest pleas- 
ures, so now may America well turn her steps on 
this tercentenary of its founding to the old home 
of her liberty -loving pioneer forbears. Many are 
bound to that Pilgrim company by ties of blood, 
but each and every one who names himself Amer- 
ican is heir to the great heritage of religious and 
political liberty descended from early Plymouth 
and cherished now in every corner of our land. 

Plans are already made for appropriate ob- 
servances, both in Holland and in England, of 
the three-hundredth anniversary of the departure 
of the Pilgrims from Delft Haven and from 
Southampton and Plymouth. 

On December 21, 1920, the anniversary of 
the landing, appropriate exercises will be held at 
rr^ . . Plymouth with addresses 

The Anniversary ^ nationally famous 
December 21, 1920 3p,^|,,,3^ ^3 ^^^^ ^^^^_ 

versary date falls at a time of year not fitted for 
an appropriate out-of-door celebration, the pop- 

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ularly planned features of the commemoration 
are fixed for the summer months of 1921. 

hi connection with these plans the Town of 
Plymouth and the State of Massachusetts have 
appropriated generous sums of money, and Con- 
gress has also appropriated a further sum. Much 
of the work of preparation is in the hands of a 
specially appointed State Commission. 

The outdoor program will center about an elab- 
orate display of pageantry. Beautiful pageants 
are now in process of preparation. 

The Town of Plymouth has purchased a site 
and appropriated $300,000 for building a fine 
memorial hall. It is proposed 



Appropriate 
Treatment of 
Old Pilgrim 
Landmarks 



to devote a great deal of care 
to restoring old Pilgrim land- 
marks and to beautifying the 
shore line of Plymouth Harbor. 
It is hoped that these plans will be carried out in 




Birthplace of Governor Bradford 



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Scrooby Church 

such a manner that the many visitors in 1921 may 
do reverence to the Pilgrims amid surroundings 
entirely fitted to form a permanent and inspiring 
memorial to those whose labors of three hundred 
years ago were our guarantee of national great- 
ness today. 

Particular attention will be given to the Rock 
and its immediate surroundings. Buildings and 
wharves near the Rock will be removed to give 
opportunity for restoring and beautifying the 
landing place. Cole's Hill, rising back of the Rock, 
will be changed and restored somewhat, to allow 
the proper preservation of the early graves of 
those who died that first winter. 

Still farther back from the water is Burial Hill 
with its ancient graves, many of them with quaint 
and interesting epitaphs. Here improvements will 

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The '' Mayfloxver" in Plvmonib Harbor 

be made and the slopes of the hill regraded to 
their original shape. 

Much attention will be given also to the shores 
of old Town brook and the famous Pilgrim 
Meresteads. 

While the old log houses of the settlers have 
disappeared, while the ancient fort long ago 



Many Scenes Dear 
to the Pilgrims May 
Still Be Enjoyed 



passed away, and the 
Indian neighbors of old 
have all passed on to the 
Happy Hunting Ground, 
it is interesting to know how many scenes familiar 
to the Pilgrims may yti be observed today. As 
we stand upon the eminence of Burial Hill we 
still have spread out before us a panorama very 
like that which the Pilgrim sentinel viewed from 
the watchtower. 

We may still look down old Leyden Street — 
the first street — named by the Pilgrims in mem- 
ory of their place of sojourn in Holland. We 

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can map out in imagination the location of the 
early Pilgrim homes. There is the site of the 
first house — '' Ye first house for comone use to 
receive them and their goods.'* 

Near the head of the street was the house of 
Governor William Bradford, and opposite was 
j Elder Brewster's home with its famous spring, 
whose waters the Pilgrim of today may still 
drink as did the fathers of 1620. From the hill 
also you may still look across the blue waters of 
Massachusetts Bay, over which came the Pilgrim 
ship. On a clear day may be seen the monu- 
ment at Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, 
twenty-five miles away, where the Mayflower 
first anchored. 

Nearer at hand the Gurnet headland guards the 

entrance to Plymouth's outer harbor, then the 

I white sands of Saquish and Plymouth beach. 

Clark's Island shows its mound of green grass 

and trees, and across the harbor looms Captain's 




Myles StandisFs Famous Sword, His Kettle and Platter 

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Hill, in Duxbury, the later home of Captain 
Myles Standish. The imposing monument to 
that hero crowns the height. 

To the south is Town brook, on its opposite 
side Watson's Hill. Here came Samoset, provi- 
dentially sent to welcome the settlers in their own 
native tongue. Soon he brought to them Massa- 
soit, sachem of the Wampanoags, with whom 
was made a treaty of peace held inviolate for half 
a century. Later came to live with the Pilgrims, 
Squanto and Hobomok, '' friend of the white man." 

Wherever one may look from this hilltop he 
may see those spots dear to the Pilgrims' hearts 
and associated with their early 
struggle. Wherever one may 
go, not only in the " Plimouth 
Plantation " and its neighbor- 
ing *' Massachusetts Bay," but 
all over New England, he will find reminders of 



The Charms of 
New England 
— Natural and 
Historical 




Levdeii Street 



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Plymoiilh Courthouse, and at Right, Registiy of Deeds Con- 
taining Many Old Records 

the old Colonial days. He will hear legend and 
story of the good old times ; he will confuse his 
tongue with the old Indian names still borne by 
many a lake and stream and mountain ; he will 
find a new inspiration and an unexpected pleasure 
in this Pilgrim Country. 

So the lover of the Pilgrims and every true 
American who cherishes a spark of reverence for 
the ideals of our early settlers who visit the 
Old Colony in 1921 will have a glorious oppor- 
tunity to experience the delights of summer on 
the New England coast, and to gain refreshment 
in body and in spirit. 



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Plymouth and Pilgrim 
Bibliography 

Addison, Albert C. The Romantic Story of the May- 
flower Pilgrims and Its Place in the Life of Today. 

Ames, Azel. The Mayflower and Her Log, July 15, 1620- 

May 6, 1621, Chiefly from Original Sources. 
Arber, Edward. Story of the Pilgrim Fathers. 

Banvard, Joseph. Plymouth and the Pilgrims; or, Inci- 
dents of Adventure in the History of the First Settlers. 

Bartlett, W. H. The Pilgrim Fathers; or. The Founders 
of New England in the Reign of James the First. 

Bradford, William, Bradford's History of " Plimoth 
Plantation," from the Original Manuscript. 

Brigham, William, Ed. The Compact, with the Charter 
and Laws of the Colony of New Plymouth, and an 
Appendix Containing the Articles of Confederation of 
the United Colonies of New Plymouth. 

Brown, John. The Pilgrim Fathers of New England and 
Their Puritan Successors. 





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A Spot Oil Burial Hill 

Campbell, Douglas. The Puritan in England, Holland, 
and America. 

Cheever, George B. The Journal of the Pilgrims at 
Plymouth, in New England, in 1620. 

Crooker, Joseph H. The Winning of Religious Liberty . 

Davis, William T. Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth. •. 

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Goodwin, John A. The Pilgrim Republic; an Historical 
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Hanks, Charles S. Our Plymouth Forefathers, the Real 
Founders of Our Republic. 

Hunter, Joseph. Collections Concerning the Church, or 
Congregation of Protestant Separatists, Formed at 
Scrooby, in North Nottinghamshire, in the Time of 
King James I, the Founder of New Plymouth. 

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JENKS, Tudor. Captain Myles Standish. 

Kingman, Bradford. Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth, 
Mass., from 1657 to 1692, with Biographical and 
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Morton, Nathaniel. New England's Memorial. 

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Usher, Roland G. The Pilgrims and Their History. (1918.) 

Usher, Roland G. Story of the Pilgrims for Children. 

WiNSLOW, William C. Governor Edward Winslow and 
His Part and Place in Plymouth Colony. 

Winthrop, John. History of New England from 163O- 
1649. 

Young, Alexander. Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of 
the Colony of Plymouth, from 1602-1 625. 











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Plays and Novels 



Austin, Mrs. Jane G. 
Austin, Mrs. Jane G. 
Austin, Mrs. Jane G. 
Austin, Mrs. Jane G. 
Austin, Mrs. Jane G. 
Austin, Mrs. Jane G. 



Betty Alden. 

David Alden' s Daughter. 

Dr. LeBaron and His Daughters. 

Nameless Nobleman. 

Standish of Standish. 

Standish of Standish; dramatized 
version by Mrs. Annie Russell Marble. 

Champney, Elizabeth W. Patience, a Daughter of the 

Mavflou'er. 
Donnelly, Henry G. Fairhaven: a Story of Pilgrim Land. 
Donnelly, Henry G. Faith White's Letter Book, 1620- 

1623, Plymouth, New England. 

Mackay, Constance d'A. Plays of the Pioneers. 

Sears, Edmund H. Pictures of the Olden Time, as Shown 
in the Fortunes of a Family of the Pilgrims. 



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